The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

Directors

Joseph Losey

Cast

Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Duilio del Prete, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Jean Desailly, Simone Valère, Peter Chatel, Giorgio Albertazzi, Carlos Miranda, Claudio Brook

The story

Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration. Trotsky has not escaped the attention of the Soviet dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who sends out an assassin named Frank Jacson.

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